{"id":209820,"date":"2025-12-31T10:01:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T10:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/209820\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T10:01:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T10:01:14","slug":"fishing-equipment-seized-by-ranger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/209820\/","title":{"rendered":"Fishing equipment seized by ranger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element img-responsive file-odt-landscape-large-4-3\" data-delta=\"1\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20251229_131243.jpg\" width=\"630\" height=\"512\" alt=\"Otago Fish &amp; Game officer Cole Briggs holds rods seized during compliance checks and angler...\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Otago Fish &amp; Game officer Cole Briggs holds rods seized during compliance checks and angler surveys on Lake Dunstan this week. PHOTO: SUPPLIED&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>Three anglers had fishing gear seized by Otago Fish &amp; Game rangers on Lake Dunstan on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>One person was found fishing without a licence, and two others were issued offence notices for fishing with more than one rod each.<\/p>\n<p>The rangers were conducting compliance checks as part of a larger survey of anglers on Lake Dunstan this season \u2014 making it the latest lake to be included in the region\u2019s fisheries monitoring programme.<\/p>\n<p>Rangers interviewed 25 anglers on the lake, combining compliance checks with survey questions to manage the lake fishery.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Rangers are out and about on lakes and rivers across the region at this time of year,&#8221; Otago Fish &amp; Game officer Cole Briggs said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s a pity to see easily avoidable offences being committed by a few anglers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;However, we\u2019re pleased to say most anglers are following the rules and having a great holiday \u2014 we\u2019d like it stay that way.&#8221; \u2014 Allied Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Otago Fish &amp; Game officer Cole Briggs holds rods seized during compliance checks and angler surveys on Lake&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-209820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}